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Peggy Devlin
Peggy Devlin

New York Times, Thursday, July 30, 1992

Author:
Peggy Devlin
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 5.11, Missing: { F J Q W X Y Z }, Scrabble score: 269 (avg 1.42)
Open Squares: 73, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 5, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3, Grid flow: 50.0 Grid has both 90- and 180-degree symmetry.
Peggy Devlin has 9 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1992, The New York TimesNo. 15,605
Across
1
Plats : MAPS
5
Separated : APART
10
Short ride : SPIN
14
Basketball's Jazz : UTAH
15
Peeling utensil : PARER
16
French river : OISE
17
Mindanao native : MORO
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Official council : PARLIAMENT
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Acceptable : UPTOPAR
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Gives : IMPARTS
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Type of type, for short : ITAL
24
Wear for an unlucky skier : CAST
25
Made contact with : ACCESSED
29
Rules : REIGNS
33
Some cocktails : SOURS
34
Poet Walter ___ Mare : DELA
36
Balmacaan : COAT
37
TV ad : CML
38
Printer's bracket, for short : PAREN
39
Sine ___ : DIE
40
Latin I word : AMAS
42
G.I.'s need : AMMO
43
Stock without an assigned value : NOPAR
45
Ice cream or beauty follower : PARLOR
47
Shown ostentatiously : ONPARADE
49
General Wingate : ORDE
51
Dissembler : LIAR
52
Slatterns : SLOVENS
55
Accounts-receivable clerks : BILLERS
58
Limits : PARAMETERS
60
Arrow poison : INEE
61
Biblical giant : ANAK
62
Is nomadic : ROVES
63
E.r.a., e.g. : STAT
64
Cincinnati nine : REDS
65
Lean : SPARE
66
Recipe amts. : TSPS
Down
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Waikiki wear : MUMU
2
Above : ATOP
3
Fussy : PARTICULAR
4
Word with pea or straight : SHOOTER
5
Horrifies : APPALS
6
Former emcee on TV : PAAR
7
J.F.K. abbreviation : ARR
8
Souvenir : RELIC
9
Three-hulled boat : TRIMARAN
10
Corporeal : SOMATIC
11
Wall portion between windows : PIER
12
"___ It Romantic?" : ISNT
13
Final proceeds : NETS
19
Cathedral section : APSE
21
Col : PASS
25
Assn. for Kern and Kahn : ASCAP
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Type of butterfly : COMMA
27
A round cheese : EDAM
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Skin: Comb. form : DERMO
30
Christening sponsors : GODPARENTS
31
Female swimmer : NAIAD
32
Cubic measure : STERE
35
Author Uris : LEON
38
Western sidekicks : PARDNERS
41
Bratislava citizens : SLOVAKS
43
Catch a crook : NAIL
44
Certain teacher of the deaf : ORALIST
46
City in Utah : OREM
48
Crinkly fabric : PLISSE
50
Prevent, in law : ESTOP
52
Boom or gaff : SPAR
53
Rural path : LANE
54
Toward the mouth : ORAD
55
___ Fox : BRER
56
Lop the crop : REAP
57
Matched pieces : SETS
59
Actress ___ Marie Saint : EVA

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 6 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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